Philippos Papayannopoulos
philpapag.bsky.social
Philippos Papayannopoulos
@philpapag.bsky.social
Philosophy of science, mathematics, and computation. #StreetPhotography.
Assoc. prof. at the U of Crete. Previously at Paris 1, Hebrew U of Jerusalem, and U of Western Ontario.
Thank you for these references.
July 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Why is that? Does the language use here affect how we allocate resources (e.g. to drug development vs. prevention/detection) or something?
July 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Official link (if you can't access and would like a pre-print, I'd be happy to share):
academic.oup.com/philmat/advanc… #AlgorithmDefinitionon#philosophy_of_mathematicscs#real_computationo#numericalAlgorithmsm#complexityty
https://academic.oup.com/philmat/advanc…
June 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Great episode (as always). BTW, the case for geometry's origin in our embodied nature has wonderfully and lucidly been made by Poincaré (e.g. in his "Science and Hypothesis"). In his apt words "if there were no solid bodies in nature, there would be no geometry".
June 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Reposted by Philippos Papayannopoulos
Beyond that though, I have been doing this sci comm stuff for a long time, and I have NEVER before known a time when I've had to grapple with so many nonsensical claims from tech leaders. There's just a constant stream, which most of the media gobbles up. I'm frankly really tired of it. 9/9
June 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Needless to say that it also has some tiny amount of consciousness, right?
December 18, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Yes, everything. Including my pipe right now. (Too bad I have no clue how to use it to compute my share of the restaurant bill).
December 18, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Now, that's one more reason for me to travel to Crete this summer.
December 6, 2024 at 1:03 AM
ChatGPT. But only for language editing and condensing my paragraphs (when I'm facing a word limit). I have not found it very useful for other tasks.
November 22, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Yes, please do! Your posts, and the "joy of why“ podcast are so much inspiring, especially for young researchers!
November 20, 2024 at 8:02 PM